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Books I’ve Read & Loved
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items I’ve always loved reading, and these are some of the books that have stayed with me long after I finished them. My tastes range from spirituality and personal growth to psychology, memoir, and fiction, but every book here is one I’ve personally read ...
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Sections
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Psychology & Relationships
Work, Habits & Doing Life Differently
Spirituality, Personal Growth & Transformation
Fiction & Historical Fiction
Nonfiction, Memoir & True Stories
Psychology & Relationships
These books have helped me better understand human behavior, relationship dynamics, and the patterns that shape the way we interact with one another.
This classic psychology book explores the hidden patterns and roles people fall into in everyday interactions and relationships.
Games People Play: Psychology of Relationships
This book offers a clear look at narcissistic behavior and the confusing relationship dynamics that often develop around it.
The Wizard of Oz and Other Narcissists
Work, Habits & Doing Life Differently
These books have challenged conventional ideas about work, success, and daily life while offering practical ways to create more freedom and live more intentionally.
This book challenged many of my assumptions about work and introduced me to the idea of designing life around freedom rather than a traditional career structure.
The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5 & Live
This is an energetic, practical book about taking action quickly, testing ideas, and starting before you feel completely ready.
Million Dollar Weekend: Launch 7-Figure Biz
This book explains how small, consistent changes can compound over time and make a surprisingly big difference.
Atomic Habits: Easy Way to Build & Break Habits
Spirituality, Personal Growth & Transformation
These books have inspired me to think more deeply about spirituality, consciousness, personal growth, and the way I experience life.
I love Yogananda’s encounters with saints and spiritual figures from different traditions and the extraordinary experiences woven throughout his journey. This book is an inspiring reminder of the magic and seemingly impossible possibilities that can ...
Autobiography of a Yogi
This book explores spiritual growth, forgiveness, past experiences, and what can happen when we step outside our usual routines and become open to transformation.
Aleph
This is a fascinating spiritual journey about confronting fear, seeking guidance, and opening to experiences beyond the ordinary.
The Valkyries: Modern Spiritual Journey
This is one of my favorite books about following your own path, trusting the journey, and paying attention to the signs along the way.
The Alchemist: A Modern Classic Fable
I love this story about spirituality, intuition, love, and the search for deeper meaning.
Brida by The Alchemist's Author
This is a compelling fictionalized account of Mata Hari that explores independence, identity, and the consequences of living outside society’s expectations.
The Spy
This book is a powerful introduction to the connection between our thoughts, beliefs, emotions, and the way we experience our lives.
You Can Heal Your Life
This book offers a simple but profound reminder to stop living so much in the past or future and return to the present moment.
The Power of Now: Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
This book helped me think differently about the voice in our heads and how much freedom can come from observing our thoughts instead of identifying with them.
The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself
I love this true story about what can happen when we stop trying to control every outcome and allow life to unfold.
The Surrender Experiment: My Journey
This is a simple and memorable guide to changing the way we communicate, think, and move through the world.
The Four Agreements: Guide to Freedom
This book offers thoughtful lessons about love, fear, relationships, and learning to stop looking outside yourself for wholeness.
The Mastery of Love: A Toltec Wisdom Guide
This book explores how changing our thoughts, habits, and emotional patterns can help us create meaningful change in our lives.
Breaking The Habit of Being Yourself
I first read The Celestine Prophecy in 1997, and I’ve returned to it countless times over the years. Every time I read it, I seem to discover a new insight or understand something in a different way. I still love its exploration of synchronicity, ene...
The Celestine Prophecy
This continuation of The Celestine Prophecy goes even deeper into spiritual purpose, intuition, and the larger meaning behind our experiences.
The Tenth Insight: Holding the Vision
This book continues the series with an adventurous search for higher consciousness, spiritual energy, and a hidden community in Tibet.
The Secret of Shambhala: Eleventh Insight
This brings together many of the series’ spiritual ideas while exploring intuition, connection, and living with greater awareness.
The Twelfth Insight: The Hour of Decision
This fascinating book explores consciousness, energy, time, and the nature of reality in a way that blends science with spirituality. It gave me a lot to think about and offers a completely different way of looking at how consciousness and the univer...
Stalking the Wild Pendulum: Mechanics of Consciousness
This book explores the relationship between energy, emotions, and the body through the traditional meridian system. I found its perspective on how our emotional state can affect our energy especially interesting.
Life Energy: Using Meridians to Unlock Emotions
Fiction & Historical Fiction
These are stories that drew me in, stayed with me, and reminded me just how powerful a beautifully told story can be.
This is a complex, beautifully written novel about love, loss, family, and the complicated ways people move through grief and relationships.
A Widow for One Year: A Novel
This moving multigenerational novel follows a Jewish family across Germany and America while exploring love, separation, memory, and the lasting impact of the Holocaust.
Send for Me
Nonfiction, Memoir & True Stories
These are true stories and nonfiction books that drew me in through fascinating people, real experiences, and perspectives on lives very different from my own. Some are deeply personal, while others explore larger social and cultural issues through t...
This powerful true story follows a young boy’s dangerous journey from Honduras to the United States in search of his mother. I found it incredibly engaging, and it offers a deeply human perspective on migration, family separation, poverty, and the ri...
Enrique's Journey: Boy's Dangerous Odyssey
I found this exploration of Edgar Cayce’s life, readings, and teachings about the Akashic Records fascinating. It offers an interesting look at his ideas about past lives, spiritual growth, and the possibility that our experiences are part of a much ...
Edgar Cayce on the Akashic Records